Scottish Cardinal Resigns over “inappropriate acts” MSM hardest hit

Scottish Cardinal Resigns over "inappropriate acts" MSM hardest hit

Car­di­nal O’Brien said in a state­ment he had already ten­dered his res­ig­na­tion, due to take effect when he turned 75 next month, but that Pope Bene­dict “has now decided that my res­ig­na­tion will take effect today”.

Three priests and a for­mer priest in Scot­land have reported the most senior Catholic cler­gy­man in Britain, Car­di­nal Keith O’Brien, to the Vat­i­can over alle­ga­tions of inap­pro­pri­ate behav­iour stretch­ing back 30 years.

The four, from the dio­cese of St Andrews and Edin­burgh, have com­plained to nun­cio Anto­nio Men­nini, the Vatican’s ambas­sador to Britain, and demanded O’Brien’s imme­di­ate res­ig­na­tion. A spokesman for the car­di­nal said that the claims were contested.

This story has to be a double-​edged sword for the MSM. They are of course pleased to see a Car­di­nal go down if they think it will harm the church.

But the truth is that if these charges are the least bit true the accel­er­ated res­ig­na­tion of this Car­di­nal (which will be one of the last offi­cial acts of Pope Bene­dict) is not only very good for the Church but high­lights a fact of the late Church scan­dals that the left would like to ignore.

That fact? The vast major­ity of the church scan­dals involv­ing minors involved Homo­sex­ual acts and Homo­sex­ual priests.

Now as I’ve said many times before, a lot Chris­tians fall into the trap of using the sin of Homo­sex­ual acts as a club rather than look­ing at their own sin but for the left this prob­lem is different.

In the cur­rent cul­ture any cri­tique of any aspect of Homo­sex­u­al­ity is VER­BOTEN. As far as some Wash­ing­ton Post reporters are con­cerned, if you hold the Opin­ion on Gay Mar­riage that prac­ti­cally the entire world held 20 years ago you are Bull Con­nor with the fire hose

The reporter: “As for accu­racy, should the media make room for racists, i.e. those peo­ple who believe that black peo­ple shouldn’t marry white peo­ple? Any story on African-​Americans wouldn’t be wholly accu­rate with­out the opin­ion of a racist, right?

“Of course I have a bias. I have a bias toward fair­ness,” the reporter con­tin­ued. “The true con­ser­v­a­tive would have the same bias. The true con­ser­v­a­tive would want the gov­ern­ment out of people’s bed­rooms, and reli­gion out of government.”

And while John Nolte (a sup­porter of Civil Unions) notes this is all about weaponiz­ing the issue for the left. This Car­di­nal is dif­fer­ent; how do you weaponize acts that you support?

As Catholics who, you know actu­ally believe, the point is to what is right period, our path is clear:

1. We should encour­age and in fact demand the removal of any Such Bishop Car­di­nal or Priest who does any­thing this Bishop has done.

2. The moment the left brings up this case we should imme­di­ately counter with: “Yes this kind of Sin it totally incom­pat­i­ble with ser­vice in the church, par­tic­u­larly the hierarchy.”

3. When this is used as a club against the Pope, Note that the res­ig­na­tion was already in the works due to his age, it was THIS Pope who proac­tively took the res­ig­na­tion early.

4. (and most impor­tant) Pray for all involved.

BTW if you aren’t doing 3 #4 because you don’t like the peo­ple involved you are fail­ing a basic duty of Christianity.

Cardinal O’Brien said in a statement he had already tendered his resignation, due to take effect when he turned 75 next month, but that Pope Benedict “has now decided that my resignation will take effect today”.

Three priests and a former priest in Scotland have reported the most senior Catholic clergyman in Britain, Cardinal Keith O’Brien, to the Vatican over allegations of inappropriate behaviour stretching back 30 years.

The four, from the diocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh, have complained to nuncio Antonio Mennini, the Vatican’s ambassador to Britain, and demanded O’Brien’s immediate resignation. A spokesman for the cardinal said that the claims were contested.

This story has to be a double-edged sword for the MSM. They are of course pleased to see a Cardinal go down if they think it will harm the church.

But the truth is that if these charges are the least bit true the accelerated resignation of this Cardinal (which will be one of the last official acts of Pope Benedict) is not only very good for the Church but highlights a fact of the late Church scandals that the left would like to ignore.

That fact? The vast majority of the church scandals involving minors involved Homosexual acts and Homosexual priests.

Now as I’ve said many times before, a lot Christians fall into the trap of using the sin of Homosexual acts as a club rather than looking at their own sin but for the left this problem is different.

In the current culture any critique of any aspect of Homosexuality is VERBOTEN. As far as some Washington Post reporters are concerned, if you hold the Opinion on Gay Marriage that practically the entire world held 20 years ago you are Bull Connor with the fire hose

The reporter: “As for accuracy, should the media make room for racists, i.e. those people who believe that black people shouldn’t marry white people? Any story on African-Americans wouldn’t be wholly accurate without the opinion of a racist, right?

“Of course I have a bias. I have a bias toward fairness,” the reporter continued. “The true conservative would have the same bias. The true conservative would want the government out of people’s bedrooms, and religion out of government.”

And while John Nolte (a supporter of Civil Unions) notes this is all about weaponizing the issue for the left. This Cardinal is different; how do you weaponize acts that you support?

As Catholics who, you know actually believe, the point is to what is right period, our path is clear:

1. We should encourage and in fact demand the removal of any Such Bishop Cardinal or Priest who does anything this Bishop has done.

2. The moment the left brings up this case we should immediately counter with: “Yes this kind of Sin it totally incompatible with service in the church, particularly the hierarchy.”

3. When this is used as a club against the Pope, Note that the resignation was already in the works due to his age, it was THIS Pope who proactively took the resignation early.

4. (and most important) Pray for all involved.

BTW if you aren’t doing 3 #4 because you don’t like the people involved you are failing a basic duty of Christianity.

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